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Friday, December 26, 2014

Readers Pick The Top 50 Stories of 2014 #50-41

I would like to thank the readers for hanging with "The Lid" for another
year. This has been the largest traffic year in The Lid's history with a little over 1.9 million page views and a little over 1.2 million individual visits. And that doesn't count
the people who subscribe to the site via Facebook and the people who read the site daily via RSS feed reader.

As it is our tradition, the last five days of the year we post which stories you enjoyed the most, based on total traffic the top fifty posts of the year. Today we present #41-50....if you click on the title you can read the entire post:

50. Laura Rozen is Distributing Document Typed/Edited By Al Jazeera As Kerry's Cease Fire Proposal: Laura Rozen a veteran Middle East Reporter with an anti-Israel slant has hit a new low. Now a reporter at al-Monitor
Rozen has been spending much of her Sunday defending the State
Department against Israeli claims the proposed 7-day Kerry cease-fire
was so bad it could have been written by Hamas.
Rozen has been arguing on Twitter that the Israelis are lying about
Kerry's proposal. She specifically bases her accusations on a copy of a
cease-fire plan that she was given. The document she is referring to was
typed and edited by employees of al-Jazeera.

48. SCANDAL! Climate Scientists Suppressed Research Which Disagreed With Warming Theory: Global warming proponents are quick to accuse those who are skeptical
of their theory as ignoring a scientific consensus. According to a
front page story in the UK Times, that supposed consensus may have been built in part by suppressing research which disagrees with their global fear mongering. The
article tells the story of research completed by five climate experts
rejected by one of the world's top academic journals after a reviewer
privately complained that the study was “harmful” to the promotion of
climate change theory.

47. President Obama's Culpability For Tuesday's Synagogue Attack: On Wednesday morning in Jerusalem life began to return to some semblance
of normalcy. Worshipers returned to the Kehilat Bnai Torah synagogue,
which was attacked the day before because as Akiva Pollack, a paramedic
who was one of the first to the terror scene on Tuesday stressed it was
important to return to normal. "When I see the synagogue full, I know
they are the people who believe the synagogue will not close but will be
strengthened. What we need to do is come back here and pray." (...) Palestinian violence is also incited by the administration of Barack
Obama, whose public criticism of Israel and desire for an ethnically
pure East Jerusalem, Judea, and Samaria is not only unprecedented for a
President of the United States in its scope and cruelty, but it serves
as nourishment for the Palestinian hatred of the Jews.

46. It Figures! Salon Blames Buffalo Lake Effect Blizzard On Global Warming For a year and a half I went to school at SUNY Oswego which among other
things was known for its sunsets. Every night we would watch the sun go
into Lake Ontario. Along with that beauty we had lake effect snow, and
we could see it coming. Sometime we would see the snow rolling in over
the lake from Canada. And when we got the snow, there would be a foot on
campus and maybe only an inch of the white stuff a few miles away. That's what has been happening in Buffalo this week---to the extreme.

45. MSNBC's Toure': Rev Martin Luther King Jr. Was a Token: Appearing on Al Sharpton's MSNBC program Friday night, guest Touré
Neblett, co-host of "the Cycle" suggested that Rev Martin Luther King
Jr, Lt. Col. Allen West, LL Cool J, Toure's colleague at MSNBC Michael
Steele, and Senator Tim Scott and many others like them are all just
tokens. As Neblett put it, "When you go to the RNC, there's always going to be some chocolate chips in the sea of vanilla ice cream."

42. CENSORSHIP! Forbes Deletes Pro-Israel Opinion Piece In his "Forbes Magazine" blog, lobbyist and public relations-superstar
Jeff Ballabon published a piece called "The 20 Most Ridiculous Things
People Believe About The Hamas/Israel Conflict.” Within hours of the
article going live, the post was taken down. Ballabon was given
conflicting reasons for the removal of the post. The one reason he
wasn't given was the most obvious one: "Forbes Magazine" did not like
the post's pro-Israel content.

41. Polar Bears Celebrate -Arctic and Antarctic Ice Caps Showing Major Growth Al Gore must be very sad but the polar bears are probably throwing a
party. Seven years Gore predicted the Arctic ice cap would be gone in
seven years, the Arctic ice cap has expanded for the second year in
succession – with a surge, depending on how you measure it, of between
43 and 63 per cent since 2012. On the other side of the world, the
Antarctic cap is at record or near record levels.